When Sergeant McAvoy arrived a citizen informed him that a man was inside the house with a shotgun and there was a woman and children being held hostage.
The suspects car struck a truck in Chicago in February of 1964 and was brought to the hospital and was subsequently arrested by the FBI for the murder of Sergeant McAvoy.
Sergeant McAvoy had been with the agency for 15 years and was survived by his wife and two sons.
Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy (born 14 December1943, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and, since 1987, a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
McAvoy worked as a storeman at the Hoover factory in Cambuslang, and was a shop steward for the Amalgamated Engineering Union; following the succession of trade union mergers, he is now a member of Amicus.
In 1982 McAvoy was elected to Strathclyde Regional Council, and served until elected to the U.K. Parliament in 1987 as the LabourCo-operative member for Glasgow, Rutherglen.
Feeds |
Contact